r/McLounge

Hi! I have an interview tomorrow, and it's my first interview ever. I have a 45 minute slot and, I've heard that it's not going to fill that entire slot, but it's still making me nervous. I've prepared STAR method answers to only 5 questions and I'm wondering if that's even close to enough? How much more should I keep going? Am I possibly even doing too much?? I don't have much experience at all (had one work placement at school, and honestly struggled a lot mentally throughout school so I didn't apply myself so even my experiences there are limited) therefore I'm finding it difficult to not write about the same things over and over again. I'm pretty worried that I'm going to be super repetitive and, while they know I have limited experience, it's going to make them not want to hire me.

Is it really going to be that difficult as I'm making it seem? The 45 minute slot is frightening me a little bit. I've read it's mostly going to be availability checking, which thankfully for me, I'm available literally all the time since the McDonalds is in walking distance and I have no other obligations whatsoever. But, again, the time slot makes me think it must be more than that. Any advice at all? My nerves might need calming more than anything. Is there anything I should be considering that I haven't? Do I need to take my National Insurance Number? Thanks in advance.

I'm genuinely considering applying to another location that's ran by an old manager of mine. Ever since that manager left who ill call Carl, the work atmosphere is more hostile and nothing ever gets done. The restaurant will be a mess, the garbage overflows in the back, and the sink (ALL THREE SIDES!!) will be filled with dirty dishes. When Carl was with us, working there was somewhat tolerable cause he was friendly with everyone and knew when and how to get shit done.

Plus there's this one kid who I'm constantly cleaning up after who doesn't ever do his job right. He'll leave the place a mess and not do his job while talking and goofing off. I'll come in for overnight and bug me and say "WiLl YoU cOmE cHeCk mY sTuFf?" and dip the fuck out. Carl even said to all of us when he left we were free to come work with him if we wanted. Everyone liked Carl. Some even brought him Thanksgiving plates back in November.

Should I go apply and work with Carl?

I’m getting really annoyed with the managers at my store specifically when it comes to shift leaders.

The other day I was on drinks and I asked for help when I was in 7 pending and the shift leaders just goes “you just need to keep up”. It ain’t my fault when I’ve just cleared the screen and I turn around and 4 more pop up at once. I work in a London franchise so I’m just wondering how easy it would be to transfer outside of any London one to outside the city. As I want to move closer to the country but I don’t know how to bring it up. I’ll probably put up with my store until I’m passed probation (which is another month aka 9/6/26) until I even try think about it.

The only thing I’m bothered about is meeting a whole new work team and bc each store is laid out different I think it would frustrate me so much.

As time goes on I’ll think about it, I just want to know how easy it would be to transfer if I wanted to.

Preferably with images. I remember who things from them showing me, but not exactly good at it. If I get the answer here then I can always look at it to learn incase I forget since I'm not used to it yet.

I know how to restock many, like ice cream, bulk milk, hot coffee, ice coffee, sweet/unsweet tea, bags, napkins, refresher drink, and more cause I worked for awhile now, but light cream for coffee is something I only done it a few time before so that's one I'm still learning. I made a mess today when trying to restock the light cream actually cause I'm still not used to that yet.

Title says all of it is went to collect my final cheque but it wasn't made. I check online and I got a statement about how much I made this month but nothing sent to my account. I am wondering if there's anything I can do anyway I could get revenge perhaps?

I am just waiting and waiting, theres no way to see how its going or if I got ghosted, police check usually means they will hire u right?

The original plan when i was at maccas 8 months ago was to finish the retail course and go straight into management training, complications happened and i left and now i work at a different maccas, ive been there only 3 weeks but i do still want to continue that plan of going into management, how would i go about having that conversation or should i just wait, does it get offered?
At my old maccas i was offered before the retail course but that was after 3 years (the last year being during year 12) of working there and i cant be there for another three years before i get another offer

I just started over a month ago and over the past few weeks I've been on the schedule and everything and my manager been telling not to come in on days when I'm supposed to work, basically cutting my hours. I don't know whats up with that I'm frustrated with it.

So I come into my shift today and immediately I’m put in service and the girl who’s spot I’m taking is sent to grill she did not stock anything the entire time she was there everything was empty. Both coffee pots were bone dry the creamer in the creamer dispenser was empty there were no bags of coffee in the container and everything from the ice to the mixes where empty in the frappe machine so I say something to my manager as I’m stocking all of this stuff that this is bull crap I shouldn’t have to come behind and stock literally everything. So the girl on headset didn’t refill anything and the girl running for front counter also didn’t stock anything so she makes me and the front counter person swap spots and I still am stocking all of the things they didn’t. I’m still in the same situation. I move on from that do my job whatever later in my shift she sends me to the grill to break out the same girl who’s spot I took and again she didn’t do anything all of the egg tools from breakfast are still sitting next to the grill she didn’t fill the grill seasoning dispenser just put it in a bowl so I have to go behind her for the second time in one day and do everything she didn’t so I told my manager either let me go home when she comes back from her break or I’m not coming in tomorrow she let me leave early. So did I over react should I have been okay doing that? I always stock while I’m working before I go on break and before I clock out at the end of my shift why should I also have to stock other peoples stuff

So i started back at maccas this week and because my old pants had rips in them i had to get new ones, they only had size 14 (im a size 10) so obviously i took them since i dont want them to make a uniform order just for me, even with a belt i find my pants literally falling off of me, has anyone had a solution for this? The jean material is too thick around the waist for my sewing machine to handle so that isnt an option

So i was hired as a Casual Employee here in Australia but haven’t heard anything from then yet.

I received my employment offer about 2 weeks ago and filled the onboarding online form as well. Still haven’t heard anything from them yet.

I was wondering whats the hiring process is like and how long it might take

I’m 16 and got hired a few weeks ago, I thought you get a break after 5 hours but they had me work over 6 and wouldn’t give me one, how many hours do you need to work for one?

hello i have my first day tomorrow and i was just wondering what should i expect and what do i do when i go into work who do i speak to?

I got the job offer today and accepted it, and for context I had the interview almost 2 weeks ago.

The issue is that I have to go away to see a pretty unwell relative in a couple weeks, and I’m going to be gone for just over 3 weeks.

I obviously didn’t know this was going to happen when I did the interview, but now I’m a bit concerned that I’m going to come back and not get any shifts.

So basically, am I gonna just get immediately fired, or will they not care and just resume my training when I’m back. Any advice or anything is very much welcome.

Hello everyone i have my Welcome meeting tmrw what should i expect from it and what will i need to wear because im thinking just formal like white top and black pants ans a black jumper but what should I wear i be expecting and how soon after would i get my shifts and what not :)

So I’ve been working at McDonald’s for almost a year. While I’ve been trained on everything, I haven’t been put in kitchen since any of my training. I’m usually booth, drinks, bundling or just front/delivery wrapping.

So this manager that had left just after I started has returned and doesn’t know that I hadn’t been in kitchen since training put me on fries to which I can do but I’m not exactly super fast at it, especially when it’s a Friday night rush. After that, I was put on finishing and while the guys beside me helped to keep me right, I was still obviously a bit confused and slow.

How do you get better in kitchen? As in knowing what goes on each burger, etc?